I Did Not Know

that the sound of a tree scraping across metal and siding would make a sound very similar to someone throwing away a whole lot of garbage.  I found this out when the tree, which I love, got wind blown in the cold front that blew in. 

At first I thought, “Oh, it is the neighbors must be cleaning,” as what sounded like someone stuffing a whole lot of garbage into a trash sack drifted through my window as I was trying to go to sleep.

Then, when the sounds got louder and more frequent I thought, “Holy crap, they are some MESSY ass people.”

Finally, when it sounded like someone was wading through a room full of garbage and I was thinking to myself, “These people are so messy that I might want to move” I got up to see what it was.

Imagine my surprise to find that not only was there no one outside fighting with a mountain of trash, but that the sound was coming from my favorite tree.  The trees at the house I grew up in did not make cleaning up the trash sounds.  This was fake nature sounds, not REAL nature sounds, and I was not sure I liked it.  The sound of the branches hitting the roof and the siding sounded like bottles clinking together and even the rustling of the leaves sounded like trash.

But, once I knew that it was the tree, the sounds suddenly turned from trash noises to loud wind blowing through the tree noises.  I was surprised to find that I had even fallen asleep to it when I woke up the next morning. 

~ by mexalapotis on November 7, 2007.